Dance
The University of Minnesota Dance Program is committed to teaching versatile, thinking dancers and visionaries who are ready to take on several different types of challenges. At the center of the program is a modern and global contemporary-based dance curriculum that fosters an intensive creative process, offers extensive performance experience, and promotes rigorous intellectual practices. Students join a program that believes embracing difference is essential to the free exchange of creative and intellectual ideas and building a truly diverse community.
About Dance
Creating thinking dancers in a global context.
Dance BA
The BA in dance emphasizes general studies of contemporary dance in a global context.
Dance BFA
The BFA in dance emphasizes technical, compositional, performance, and theoretical training in modern dance and contemporary dance in a global context.
Cowles Land Grant Chair
The Cowles Land Grant Chair connects nationally and internationally recognized artists and scholars with dance students, exposing them to contemporary artistry, masterwork and new thinking in dance studies.
Admissions & Auditions
Acceptance into the BFA and BA programs in dance, as well as placement into modern, African diasporic movement, jazz and ballet technique classes is by audition only.
Summer Dance
Come Fly with Black Label Movement!: A 2 week residency with Twin Cities Dance Company Black Label Movement
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